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  1. Comment on Electronic Arts slashes BioWare after ‘Dragon Age’ sales miss in ~games

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    In having visited your country recently, I'm of the same opinion but mostly because there are giant billboards on every highway advertising traffic injury lawyers. One from Houston: "Jesus Saves,...

    In having visited your country recently, I'm of the same opinion but mostly because there are giant billboards on every highway advertising traffic injury lawyers.

    One from Houston: "Jesus Saves, Willie Wins!
    " Next to a picture of a dude with crunk teeth and bills in his hands.

    Like, that's ridiculous.

    2 votes
  2. Comment on Electronic Arts slashes BioWare after ‘Dragon Age’ sales miss in ~games

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    My god - what a shitty list of checkboxes. I wish that America elected a bull in a china shop, but one that destroyed the country's litigation infrastructure rather than everything else.

    My god - what a shitty list of checkboxes. I wish that America elected a bull in a china shop, but one that destroyed the country's litigation infrastructure rather than everything else.

    3 votes
  3. Comment on Trade tariffs tomorrow and now US President Donald Trump is jockeying for Canadian water. Americans, what's your take on this? in ~society

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    To me, not thinking of the in-between time is the "Common Sense" version of governance. Elites they may be, people in *good TripleE government roles for the last half century understand that you...

    To me, not thinking of the in-between time is the "Common Sense" version of governance.

    Elites they may be, people in *good TripleE government roles for the last half century understand that you actually need to plan for the next step and not just throw caution to the wind.

    At best, I think it's all a very expensive nothing burger that centers tech CEOs as the beneficiaries of most of tomorrow's economy.

    If it's not impoverished wage slaves who build stuff, it sure as hell won't be developed world wage slaves who want those jobs.

    1 vote
  4. Comment on Senior US official to exit after rift with Elon Musk allies over payment system in ~society

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    We've all been through it before. We know that the strategy is to shock, awe and break things. But what's the actual plan? What happens when everything is broken? Even for Donald Trump, he has to...

    We've all been through it before. We know that the strategy is to shock, awe and break things.

    But what's the actual plan? What happens when everything is broken?

    Even for Donald Trump, he has to have something going on in his head - something that makes sense to him about how to build his MAGA plane while it's already in the air.

    3 votes
  5. Comment on ADHD representation in media in ~health.mental

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    Not sure if the definition of media extends to Social Media in this case, but I see plenty there. ...and if we're looking at the volume of social vs. traditional media consumed by today's...

    Not sure if the definition of media extends to Social Media in this case, but I see plenty there.

    ...and if we're looking at the volume of social vs. traditional media consumed by today's audiences, it's arguable that social has a very big piece of the attention pie.

  6. Comment on Trade tariffs tomorrow and now US President Donald Trump is jockeying for Canadian water. Americans, what's your take on this? in ~society

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    I hope that it's all bluster with little follow-through (similar to the USMCA negotiations) but I'm not hopeful. It's early in the administration, both houses are his ans cowering before him and...

    I hope that it's all bluster with little follow-through (similar to the USMCA negotiations) but I'm not hopeful.

    It's early in the administration, both houses are his ans cowering before him and he's got nothing to lose this term as he'll likely be walking into deferred criminal charges when it's over.

    A bull in a china shop - it's what his voters wanted, what he promised and what the cultural moment of extreme polarization has come to.

    Despite my feelings about him, his deceitful tactics and his willingness to throw all convention to the wind, I do think that Canada has grown pretty comfortable with our agreement with the US and it's good to have our comfortable cage rattled a little.

    I hope that it's not too extreme, but our (Canada's) politics have become a little too spendy, a little too Pollyanna, and a little too narrow over theast two decades to prepare us for this moment.

    4 votes
  7. Comment on Can you recommend tv shows with themes of grit, endurance, survival under hostile circumstances? in ~tv

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    It's great - those early seasons have some real flubby episodes, though.

    It's great - those early seasons have some real flubby episodes, though.

    1 vote
  8. Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative

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    Raising a child - it's really hard. I've also taken apart the first arcade machine I built and am in the process of building a monster. 4 screens, new PC, pull out wheel, Dreamcast theme, ARGB...

    Raising a child - it's really hard.

    I've also taken apart the first arcade machine I built and am in the process of building a monster.

    4 screens, new PC, pull out wheel, Dreamcast theme, ARGB addressable strips within and throughout.

    Eager to get it done!

    3D Render

    2 votes
  9. Comment on Besides Shawshank Redemption, what films do you like that feature grit, resilience, endurance under hostile circumstances? in ~movies

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    It's TV, but I never hesitate to recommend OZ, the HBO prison drama that (I believe) kicked off Sopranos style tv before the Sopranos.

    It's TV, but I never hesitate to recommend OZ, the HBO prison drama that (I believe) kicked off Sopranos style tv before the Sopranos.

  10. Comment on library.gamehistory.org — Now in early access in ~games

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    Ahhh I love this. EGM has been blasting me with instagram ads for their hardcover history book and I've been tempted to spend the $100 every single time. Watching a bunch of people in their 40s...

    Ahhh I love this. EGM has been blasting me with instagram ads for their hardcover history book and I've been tempted to spend the $100 every single time.

    Watching a bunch of people in their 40s talk about the same childhood interests that I share has a strange air about it, though. It really makes me reflect on how novel the 80s and 90s were for gaming, and what an impact it made on each of us who still pays an undue amount of attention to the hobby.

    2 votes
  11. Comment on Stream PBS and PBS KIDS free on Prime Video in ~tv

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    Does it dish out ads to your kids?

    Does it dish out ads to your kids?

    1 vote
  12. Comment on Interest in a new Tildes /~group?, ~Electronics or perhaps ~Makers? in ~tildes

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    Seconded. If it's not being used then adding more isn't going to change things. I personally don't know how to use tags/haven't used tags in the Three Cheers app and I'm likely not the only one....

    Seconded. If it's not being used then adding more isn't going to change things. I personally don't know how to use tags/haven't used tags in the Three Cheers app and I'm likely not the only one.

    Maybe it's a communications blitz about how tags works? Which ones have the most activity?

    4 votes
  13. Comment on How would you rate adulthood? in ~life

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    Amen. One can always hope! To you, too. If anything, being a parent sure isnt dull!

    Amen. One can always hope! To you, too.

    If anything, being a parent sure isnt dull!

    1 vote
  14. Comment on How would you rate adulthood? in ~life

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    Totally fair. I'm with you on the video game front. In fact, I'm building a four screen Mame machine right now so that she knows games from year 4 onward ;)

    Totally fair. I'm with you on the video game front. In fact, I'm building a four screen Mame machine right now so that she knows games from year 4 onward ;)

    1 vote
  15. Comment on How would you rate adulthood? in ~life

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    Haha - forget Harrison Ford or James Cameron's careers beginning in their 40's - The Greatest Adventure of Master Baggins is the high watermark we must aspire to!

    Haha - forget Harrison Ford or James Cameron's careers beginning in their 40's - The Greatest Adventure of Master Baggins is the high watermark we must aspire to!

    4 votes
  16. Comment on How would you rate adulthood? in ~life

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    I'm telling myself that the decision to have kids will absolutely be worth it when we're in our 60s and 70s. Nothing looks familiar anymore, our friends are dying and we have this latent,...

    I'm telling myself that the decision to have kids will absolutely be worth it when we're in our 60s and 70s.

    Nothing looks familiar anymore, our friends are dying and we have this latent, desperate need to belong to a world that no longer needs us.

    I'm hoping that my kid doesn't just put us in a home, because we'll need somebody to help us program our neurallink to record Seinfeld reruns

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  17. Comment on How would you rate adulthood? in ~life

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    At 40 with a one year old, I feel you. It's all routine, burning the candle at both ends and repeating it over and over. Not sure if you child is in daycare, but the first week we put mine in, she...

    At 40 with a one year old, I feel you. It's all routine, burning the candle at both ends and repeating it over and over. Not sure if you child is in daycare, but the first week we put mine in, she came home sick and well...

    I never appreciated how screwy the sick kid situation was until I had to experience it.

    As for male friends, that's interesting. I have the opposite - all of the dudes with kids want to hang and play video games, and to the contrary, all of my female friends have disappeared and just want to hang with other women (of which I am not).

    2 votes
  18. Comment on How would you rate adulthood? in ~life

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    Life's responsibilities always get in the way of a multi-day hobby bender. I miss it too.

    Life's responsibilities always get in the way of a multi-day hobby bender. I miss it too.

    2 votes
  19. Comment on How would you rate adulthood? in ~life

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    Well, they do say that youth is wasted on the young. I'd also like to add that unlike the Disney/Square Enix/everything instruction manual says, the the protagonist typical age of 15 to 22 is not...

    Well, they do say that youth is wasted on the young.

    I'd also like to add that unlike the Disney/Square Enix/everything instruction manual says, the the protagonist typical age of 15 to 22 is not when you do the most adventuring, leveling up or god killing. No, that's false E3 booth advertising and his little to do with the scenes and characters actually included in the game.

    3 votes